The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-14
CHEATING TIE GALLONS.
FIVE 0IURDERERS LYNCHED AT
YORNVILIIE.

tahE Jnch TO IrCGS--NO clue To th'
Participants.
(From the lorkvillc Enquirer, April G)
Yesterday morning opened on the
) closing scene Of ono of the most fearful
tragedies over enacted in York county
With the brutal murder of the littlc in
nOcent boy Johnnie Leo Good, on the
evening Of tho 30th of last Novcmhcr
our readers are familiar. On that eve
ming, rs the investigation Of the jury Of
inquest and subsequent confessions de
VclOpcd, the murderers proved to bt
Prindlcy Thomson, Bailey Dowtllo, Dan
Roberts and Nose Lipscomb, with mum
Der OF supposed accessories before the
fact, it being believed that combination
for the purposes Of robbery and murder
existed among the negroes Of that ncigh.
borhood, in Bullocll's Creek township,
and adjacent to Broad River. Several
Of the accessories or accomplices whose
names were divulged by the investiga-
ton were lodged i'll jail, where they now
arc.
Excitement ran high in tho neighbour
hood OF the murder, as indignation was
also manifested throughout the county.
The victim was an unotfending boy less
than fourteen years old, the son OF we'll
to.do and worthy parents, by whom he
was ldOllzcd. In an unfortunate moment,
rs PrndlCy Thomson confessed in the
jail, the little boy detected him, Nose,
Dan and Bailey, in the act OF stealing
cotton from his fathers field. 70 pre-
vent exposure, the cotton thieves brutal
~ murdered him. Prindlcy made this
confession:
81 went with them after the cotton in
Mr.. Goods field, and left them there.
Bailey had the boys waist; [ hud his
legs; AIosn WAS choking him, and Dan
b! earned the rocks. We all went away by
the pasture field. Bailey hit HIM first
with the rock when we first got hold of
the boy. Dan saw tho boy first. Dan
said: "BUyS, yondcr is Ice" Bailey hit
first, and Dan next. Nose jumped on
Lis bowels"
Such was the material portion of
pnndicy'S confession, the wounds on the
dead body Of the boy corroborating his
statement rs to the manner OF infiiction.
After this confession was made and be-
came known, it brinS reasonably certain
OF the positive guilt OF Prndloy, Bailey,
Dan and Nose, tho pcnt up feeling OF
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hin Iyhrrn fhnv rnani,n,I ''114 ~ oistlit unt
urdov Whom tHo SLnri6. inII4i i,''i 'I''U TD
4 y Cnrt,y;Sbt nnI NJ. Tar'',, - ~
/ Riddle two mrH in whose cnnrn'ro' I,ndnr
contingent diI1icultics he had fmII conf
dcncc, to conduct the prisoners from
, Columbia to Yorkvillc. The transfcr
was accomplished without incident, md
on Saturday evening they were rct,rned
to their old quarters in the Yorkvillo
Jail.
1t WAS SUPPOSED that the excitement
AMI indignation incident to the lnurdcr
/ had subsidcd, and certainly aIl feeling
for summary vengeance was smn,borinU
until Monday moTniup when the uumis1
t0kahlo unacy of the father Of the mur-
dcrcd boy rckindlcd the anger of all who